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Herd Production Medicine
Food Labeling:
What is it, who does it, what are the rules, and what are
the issues?
Grass-fed, Humane, Natural, Organic, Sustainable, . .
Version 1.5 - initial draft 3/09 updated 11/28/12
Note: The inclusion of items in the following does not imply endorsement nor does omission imply disapproval.
EPA - Agriculture
FDA Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition
- Food Labeling and Nutrition
- Food Labeling - CFR Title 21: Food and Drugs Part 101 - Food Labeling
- How to Understand and Use the Nutrition Facts Label
- Questions and Answers about Trans Fat Nutrition Labeling
- Information for Industry
- Information Materials for the Food and Cosmetics Industries - TOC
- Labeling & Nutrition
OMB
- Circular A-119: Federal participation in the development and use of voluntary consensus standards and in conformity assessment activities
USDA
- AMS - Agricultural Marketing Service (provides standards for labels and marketing claims)
- ACA's - Accredited Certifying Agents - pdf
- Certified Beef Programs - Individual Specifications
- COOL - Country of origin labeling
- "Dispelling the Myths About Livestock Marketing Programs for Producers" - pdf
- Livestock and Seed Auditing Services
- LS PVP - Process Verified Programs
- official listing - pdf
- LS QSA Program - Quality Systems Assessment
- "Grass Fed" Marketing Claim Standards
- "Naturally Raised" Marketing Claim Standards
- Federal Register - html
- ppt - AMI
- "Organic"
- National Organic Program Handbook
- Organic Foods Production Act of 1990 - pdf
- Title 7: Agriculture Part 205: National Organic Program - TOC
- NOP - National Organic Program
- ACA's - Accredited Certifying Agents - pdf
- National List of Allowed and Prohibited Substances
- NOSB - National Organic Standards Board
- ARS - Nutrient Data Laboratory
- USDA National Nutrient Database for Standard Reference - Release 25
- ERS - Economic Research Service
- Country-of-origin Labeling
- Economics of Food Labeling (AER 793, 2001)
- Emerging Issues in the U.S. Organic Industry (EIB-55, 2009)
- Organic Agriculture
- FoodSafety.gov
- FSIS
- Application for Approval of Labels, Marking or Device - pdf
- Basics of Labeling
- Food Labeling Fact Sheets
- Labeling & Consumer Protection Staff
- National Agricultural Library
- Alternative Farming Systems Information Center - Publications
- Organic Production
- Organic Production and Organic Food: Information Access Tools
- Guide to U.S. Organic Marketing: Laws and Regulations, 2008 - pdf
- Sustainable Agriculture: Definitions and Terms
- Animal Welfare Audits and Certification Programs
- RBS - ATTRA - National Sustainable Agriculture Information Service
International / Foreign Standards:
Canadian Food Inspection Agency
Codex Alimentarius (WHO/FA) Food Standards) - Food Labeling - pdf pdf2
FAO Animal Production and Health Division
- Gateway to Farm Animal Welfare
- Capacity building to implement good animal welfare practices, 2008 pdf
IFC - International Finance Corporation - World Bank
- Environmental, Health, and Safety Guidelines for Mammalian Livestock Production - pdf
ISO - International Organization for Standardization
- TC 34 - Food products
National Farm Animal Care Council (Canada)
Ontario Ministry of Agriculture Food and Rural Affairs - Organic Agriculture
wiki:
- food labeling regulations (UK and EU)
Certification, Labeling and Standards:
American Heart Association
American Humane Certified (formerly "Free Farmed", American Humane Association) - Farm Animals - The Humane Touch
AMI - American Meat Institute - Animal Handling
Animal andling.org (AMI - American Meat Institute)
Animal Welfare Approved (Animal Welfare Institute)
ANSI - American National Standards Institute
BWAP - Bristol Welfare Assurance Program
BQA - Beef Quality Assurance
Certified Humane (HFAC - Humane Farm Animal Care - ASPCA, HSUS, local human societies ) - wiki
DEFRA - UK Dept for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
DQA Center - Milk & Dairy Beef Quality Assurance Center
Dr. Temple Grandin Certified, Sustainable and Humane (Temple Grandin with Niman Ranch)
FACTA - Farm Animal Care Training and Auditing (Dr. John McGlone)
FARM - Farmers Assuring Responsible Management - National Dairy Farm Program
Farm Sanctuary - Research Reports
FAWC - Farm Animal Welfare Council (United Kingdom)
FSA - UK Food Standards Agency
IBeef (Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation)
IFOAM - International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements
IOIA - International Organic Inspectors Association
ISO - International Organization for Standardization
Master Cattle Transporter Guide
National Dairy Animal Well-being Initiative
National Dairy Farm Assured Scheme (British)
National Dairy FARM Program - NMPF Farmers Assuring Responsible Management
OCIA International - organic crop improvement association
PAACO - Professional Animal Auditor Certification Organization, Inc. - pdf
Pennsylvania DACQA - Dairy Animal Care & Quality Assurance - Center for Dairy Excellence
PETA(?)
Quality Assurance International - wiki
Rodale - Guide to US Organic Certifiers
SCS - Scientific Certification Systems
SQF - Safe Quality Food Institute
press:
wiki:
Alderspring Ranch Grass Fed Beef
- What you read is what you get?? Beware of misleading labels
- certifier - Animal Welfare Approved (see listing above for details)
- Patricia Whisnant DVM, CEO
- Fruitland American Meat, LLC
Angus Source - American Angus Association
Certified Angus Beef (producers) - consumers
- AngusSource - USDA Process Verified Program
- Producer participant manual - pdf
- Best Practices Manual - TOC
- Chapt 3: Health Management - pdf
- Certified Angus Beef Natural
- research papers
- Effect of Cattle Disease on Carcass Traits - pdf
- Supplying the Brand - TOC
Country Natural Beef (Oregon Country Beef)
- certifier - Food Alliance (see listing above for details)
JS West Family Farms - poultry
- Prop 2 Solution and Hen Welfare - video
- certifier - Certified Humane (see listing above for details)
- Coleman Natural
- Laura's Lean Beef (affidavit rather than independent certifier?)
- cattle specifications
- application - pdf
- certifier - Certified Humane (see listing above for details)
- certifier - CCOF - California Certified Organic Farmers
Tallgrass Beef (founded by Bill Kurtis, CBS Anchor - Red Buffalo Ranch)
Williamson Farms
- Provider protocol - pdf
Alberta beef plan goes bust (Rancher's Beef Ltd, Balzac, AB) Buffalo survivors have advice for other niche meat marketers (Stockman Grass Farmer 3/3/09) Future Beef Operations The Dawn of Future Beef (Beef Magazine, 8/1/01) New Plant of the Year: Future Beef Operations (Food Engineering, 4/11/03) Why Future Beef went under (Beef Magazine, 11/1/02) Failure of Genius (Inc.com 8/1/03) Future Beef Operations plant sold Niche Marketing Considerations: Beef as a Case Example, 1997 (Wyoming Lean Beef, C Bastian, DJ Menkhaus) Niman Ranch article - Niman Ranch founder challenges new owners (San Francisco Chronicle - 1/09 taken over by Natural Food Holdings LLC to avoid bankruptcy) NPPB - Northern Plains Premium Beef Rocky Mountain Beef Cooperative Success/failure analysis - AgMRC - agricultural marketing resource center Tallgrass Prairie Producers Coop A Fight for Survival Romance vs Reality: Hard Lessons Learned in a Grass-fed Beef Marketing Cooperative - html pdf pdf2
AAFCO - Association of American Feed Control Officials
AgMRC - Agricultural Marketing Resource Center
- Branded, certified, verified beef - resources
- commodity beef
- Romance vs Reality: Hard Lessons Learned in a Grass-fed Beef Marketing Cooperative
- Strategic Thinking for Agricultural Value-Added Businesses
AFAC - Alberta Farm Animal Care
- IFIC - International Food Information Council
AMI - American Meat Institute
Beef Technologies (Growth Enhancement Technology Information Team - Elanco, Fort Dodge, Intervet, Pfizer) - now SBRC (see below)
- Conventional beef production is eco-friendly and eco-nomical
- Economic Analysis of Pharmaceutical Technologies in Modern Beef Production in a Bioeconomy Era, 2009 (JD Lawrence, M Ibarburu, pdf)
- Fifty Years Of Pharmaceutical Technology And Its Impact On The Beef We Provide To Consumers, 2004 (TE Elam, RL Preston, pdf)
- The Environmental Safety and Benefits of Pharmaceutical Technologies in Beef Production, 2007 (A Avery, D Avery, Hudson Institute, pdf)
CDQA - California Dairy Quality Assurance Program
- Dairy Welfare Evaluation Guide - TOC
Center for Global Food Issues - DT Avery, AA Avery, Hudson Institute (SW)
- The environmental safety and benefits of growth enhancing pharmaceutical technologies in beef production, 2007 - pdf
EatWild - The #1 Site for Grass-Fed Food & Facts (Jo Robinson)
FACT: Food Animal Concerns Trust
- Publications
- Filthy Feed: The risky and unregulated practice of feeding poultry litter to cattle - pdf
- Pasture requirements for organic dairy cows - pdf
- Grass fed marketing claim - pdf
- Naturally raised livestock and meat marketing claim - pdf
- Product labeling: definition of term "natural" - pdf
- Naturally raised claim for livestock and the meat - pdf
FMI - Food Marketing Institute
Food Info Net - The Ultimate Food Information Resource
Food Law Org - Institute for Food Laws and Regulations - Neal D. Fortin, Michigan State U
Food & Society Fellows at IATP - Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy
Grass Fed Beef - Cal State Chico
HSUS: The Humane Society of the United States - Factory Farming Campaign (SW)
- An HSUS Report: The Welfare of Cows in the Dairy Industry, 2008 pdf
- An HSUS Report: The Welfare of Animals in the Meat, Egg, and Dairy Industries, 2006 pdf
- An HSUS Report: Welfare Issues with Tail Docking of Dairy Cows, 2008 pdf
- Scientists and Experts on Gestation Crates and Sow Welfare, 2008 pdf
IOIA - International Organic Inspectors Association
IDFA - International Dairy Foods Association
Iowa Ag Decision Maker (AgDM)
Iowa State Dept of Economics - JD Lawrence,, Director, Iowa Beef Center
- Economic Analysis of Pharmaceutical Technologies in Modern Beef Production, 2006 pdf
- Economic Analysis of Pharmaceutical Technologies in Modern Beef Production in a Bioeconomy Era, 2007 pdf
ISBCW - International Symposium on Beef Cattle Welfare, Kansas State U Beef Cattle Institute, 2008
Kansas Rural Center - publications
Kerr Center for Sustainable Agriculture
Leopold Center
- Organic, natural and grass-fed beef: Profitability and constraints to production in the Midwestern United States, 2005 - pdf
Livestock Welfare - NFACC, AFAC, FACS, MFAC, OFAC (Canadian Farm Animal Councils), CAHC
- Recommended Codes of Practice
- Farm Animal Handling Resources for Youth
- Research
- Livestock Welfare INSIGHTS
MOSES - Midwest Organic and Sustainable Education Service
- Guidebook for Organic Certification 3rd ed, 2008 - pdf
- Production Information
MSN Health & Fitness
National Dairy Animal Well-being Initiative
- Principles & Guidelines for Dairy Animal Well-Being, 2008 - pdf
- Caring for Dairy Animals Guide
- Continuous Improvement Cycle - pdf
NM State U Range Improvement Task Force
- Characteristics of the United States Organic Beef Industry, 2007 - pdf
NOFA - Northeast Organic Farming Association
- Transitioning to Organic Dairy: Self-assessment workbook - pdf
Nutrition and Well-Being A to Z
OCA - Organic Consumers Association
OMRI - Organic Materials Review Institute
Open Congress Wiki
OrganicAgInfo - Organic Agriculture Consortium (Ohio, N Carolina, Iowa, Tufs) - broken 3/09
Organic Grassfed Beef Coalition
- How to Go Organic - Pathway to Organic
- Organic Foods Production Act Backgrounder
- Animal Care and Welfare - pdf
PG Economics Limited - Agricultural and Food Economists
- Biotech crops: the real impacts 1996-2006 - yields - pdf
POA - Purdue Organic and Alternative Livestock Production Systems
Quackwatch
Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation
- Premiums being offered for natural beef cattle (Ag News and Views: Economics, May 2009)
SAREP
SBRC - Sustainable Beef Resource Center (formerly Beef Technologies (Growth Enhancement Technology Information Team - Elanco, Fort Dodge, Intervet, Pfizer))
Sourcewatch (SW)
- Organic Center Response to the FSA Study
- Shades of Green: Quantifying the Benefits of Organic Dairy Production
UC Davis
- Beef Care Practices, 2007 (UC Davis ANR Publication 8257 pdf)
- Current Cost and Return Studies
- Costs for an Organic Cow-calf Operation, 2005 - pdf
- Costs for Cow-calf/Grass-fed Beef Operation, 2004 - pdf
- Organic farming cost and return studies
- Dairy Care Practices, 2nd ed 1998 (Animal Care Series, Dairy Workgroup pdf)
- Dairy Welfare Evaluation Guide (California Quality Assurance Program - TOC)
Utah Food Label Review Program
Walmart Sustainability
Welfare Quality (European Union welfare assessment standard development group)
- Principles and criteria of good Animal Welfare - pdf
- Overview flowcharts
WSU CSANR - Center for Sustaining Agriculture and Natural Resources
Yum! Company - Animal Welfare
papers:
- A comparison of three animal welfare assessment programs on California dairies, 2005 (Stull CL, BA Reed, SL Berry, J Dairy Sci 88:1595-1600) - abstract
- An overview of animal welfare in the US dairy industry, 2004. (Gary FB, Bovine Practitioner 38:1-34)
- Animal agriculture and emerging social ethics for animals, 2004 (Rollins BE, J Anim Sci 82:955-964)
- Animal welfare audits - what you should know about them. (Reynolds J, The AABP Proceedings 39:162-166)
- The five freedoms of cattle. Ron Gill, The Progressive Cattleman, 4/27/11 - Pearl Snaps' Ponderings blog 5/5/11
- Food Systems and Public Health: Linkages to Achieve Healthier Diets and Healthier Communities, 2009 special issue Journal of Hunger & Environmental Nutrition 4(3 & 4)
- Literature review: A comparison of dairy production systems, 2009 V Campbell-Arvai, CS Mott Group, Michigan State. pdf
- On-farm animal welfare assessments and audits in the UK, 2008 (Whay HR, The AABP Proceedings 41:73-77.
- Reconnecting consumers and producers: On the path toward a sustainable food and agriculture policy, 2009. (SA Schneider, U Arkansas School of Law, abstract)
- Setting the farm animal welfare scene in North America, 2008 AK Johnson, ASABE 701P0408 pdf
- Survey of Retail Milk Composition as Affected by Label Claims Regarding Farm-Management Practices, 2008. (J Vicini et al., J Nutrition Educ Behav 108(7):1198-1203, abstract))
- The role of the veterinarian in ensuring animal welfare, 2004 (Swanson JC, The AABP Proceedings 37:?)
- The welfare of dairy cattle - Key concepts and the role of science (Keyserlingk MAG, J Rushen, AM de Passile, DM Weary, J Dairy Sci 92:4101-4111, 2009) abstract
- Why should I know about animal welfare audits? SD Eicher, 2006 Tri-State Dairy Nutrition Conference pdf , 2nd site html
other materials:
- Chap 2: Business Fundamentals and Marketing - pdf in The Farmer's Legal Guide to Producer Marketing Associations - 130 pg pdf
- Everything I Need to Know About Organic Foods (The World's Healthiest Foods website)
- Message to Obama: Please Fix the USDA’s Organic Mess (The Cornucopia Institute)
- National Restaurant Association Supply Chair Hurdles, 2008 slides
- Organic (food and farming) The Skeptics Dictionary
- Organic, Natural and Grass-Fed Beef: Profitability and constraints to Production in the Midwestern U.S., 2006 - pdf
- Study of Grass Fed Beef as a Value Chain in North Central New Mexico and the San Luis Valley, 2008 (AISD) - pdf
- The facts about food and farming (Russ Parson, LA Times 1/6/10)
- The transition to organic agriculture: A multi-year simulation model of a Pennsylvania farm (Am J Alternative Ag)
- U.S. Grass-Fed Beef: Marketing Health Benefits, 2005 (WSU IMPACT Center) - pdf
- Who Owns Organic? (Rural Advancement Foundation International) - 40 pg pdf
people:
- Howard, Philip H. - Michigan State
- Mench, Joy A. - UC Davis
blogs and influential sites:
- Alltop
- Agricultural Law
- Beef Blog - Purdue Animal Sciences
- Cause Matters Corp - Michele Payn-Knoper
- The Cornucopia Institute Codex Alimentarius
- Dairy and Animal Science Blogs - Terry Etherton Blog on Biotechnology
- Food Law Blog
- Food Law Prof Blog
- Food Politics (Marion Nestle)
- Global Food Law Blog
- GristMill
- Is the Obama administration about to eat the foodies’ lunch? (1/8/10) [regulation scale problem]
- IFLR - Institute for Food Laws and Regulations
- Jamie Oliver - Food Revolution
- TED - Jamie Oliver's TED Prize wish: Teach every child about food
- Joel Makower
- POA - Purdue Organic and Alternative
- Tomorrow's Table (Pamela Ronald, Plant Pathology, UC Davis)
- U.S. Food Policy - Parke Wilde, Tufts U
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